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Orson Welles vs. Edward G. Robinson in “The Stranger” (1946)
Posted by Zac in Entertainment and Pop Culture Movies.
Edward G Robinson (Soylent Green) releases Konstantin Shayne from prison so he can inadvertently lead Robinson to a former Nazi officer now living in America under a different identity. The former Nazi is played by Orson Welles (Touch of Evil), who’s posing as a college professor and has married Mary (Loretta Young), the daughter of a prominent judge in town, played by Phillip Merivale (Mr. and Mrs. SMith). Richard Long (House on Haunted Hill) also shows up as Mary’s brother Noah. Continue reading »
Entertainment and Pop Culture, Movies | Comment (0)Aretha’s hat…oh yeah, and equal pay!
Posted by Kate G. in Politics World.
This totally isn’t going to be a post about her hat, but I have to ask: how much did you LOVE it? I’m its fan on Facebook.
Moving on…Obama is already proving himself a strong proponent for women; last Thursday, he signed his first bill, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, that relaxes the current statute of limitations on suing on grounds of pay discrimination. The Act itself is named for Lilly Ledbetter, who worked at a Goodyear Tire plant in Alabama for 19 years and then sued as she approached retirement and realized she was making less than her male co-workers.
Politics, World | Comment (0)Newest Newbery Announced!
Posted by Susan in Book Blog Entertainment and Pop Culture.
It’s official, author Neil Gaiman has won the most prestigious writing award in American children’s literature for “The Graveyard Book,” the story of an orphan raised by ghosts…
Let me say, in all my blogging, he’s likely the most talked about author I’ve heard about. Everyone who reads, everyone who comments, is constantly tossing his name into the stew. I had several surprised blogosphere friends hear that I didn’t chose to interview him during last summer’s Library of Congress Book Fair, and now BOY do I wish I had!
Ah well, lesson learned… and hoorah, Neil, and what a dream come true!
Book Blog, Entertainment and Pop Culture | Comment (0)Grindhouse Experience
Posted by Zac in Entertainment and Pop Culture Movies.
Years ago, before everything became so sanitized, the grindhouse was a place where the theater would literally grind out one film after another. Usually the quality of these films were lacking, with titles and posters which were far better than the movies themselves. Interest in grindhouse theaters and the films they’d show has picked up over the last two years after the release of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s double feature Planet Terror and Death Proof. DVD companies are releasing related boxsets left and right, such as the one I’m reviewing today, Fortune 5 DVD’s 20 film set, Grindhouse Experience. Continue reading »
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